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&quot; that sought for execution, and charged the judges which CHAP. 

 &quot; so denied justice, to answer all such damages as the party VIL 

 &quot; sustained for lack of execution. Moreover, that the judges 

 &quot; delegates, in deciding and determining the matter, had used 

 &quot; great pains, travail, and diligence, to understand the truth 

 &quot; both in fact and in law ; and after great and long delibe- 

 &quot; ration had given a just, discreet, and indifferent sentence. 

 &quot; That whereas Mr. Secretary made a scruple of quarta, the 

 &quot; truth was, the Archbishop paid not after the rate of octaua 

 &quot; nor duodecimo,. That it was strange that the said Secre- 

 &quot; tary, who was not learned in the laws, should stick and 

 &quot; swerve from the rest of his colleagues, seeing he had given 

 &quot; sentence jointly with the rest. Farthermore, that the Bi- 

 &quot; shop of London and his executors should be charged for 

 &quot; ever with the sum of money that was adjudged by the 

 * sentence, as with that which he had received, or might 

 &quot; receive ; and could not any way be discharged against the 

 &quot; church, or against his successor, but by employing the 

 &quot; same upon the church : and that even then the Commis- 

 &quot; sioners for Paul s, by their letters to the Bishop, did ear- 

 &quot; nestly urge present payment thereof to be made : that the 

 &quot; decays of the church were such as required speedy and 

 &quot; present reparation.&quot; Yet after all this, the Bishop offered, 

 that if the two Archbishops (who had been Bishops of Lon 

 don before him) would bear him harmless, he would be con 

 tented to hold himself satisfied. 



The Bishop and the other ecclesiastical Commissioners The Bishop 

 were inclined to release out of prison certain Popish Priests, judgment of 

 whereof there were not a few now in custody ; and that as the J ud s es 



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it seems by some intimation from above, being unwilling the certain Pa- 

 rigour of the law should take place upon them. But the plsts 

 Bishop doubted whether they might safely extend this fa 

 vour to them ; and therefore the opinion of the judges was 

 required in this matter. This was in the beginning of the 

 year 1585, when it was delivered by the said judges in the 

 Star-chamber, the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer 

 present, viz. that they, being upon condemnation according 



